I think this argument is flawed. If playing in the SEC was that much of an advantage, you'd see schools like Missouri, Mississippi State and Kentucky stealing kids from us. The reason schools like Alabama and Georgia have a clear advantage over us is they are consistently developing quality NFL talent. All they have to do is tell recruits to just turn on the TV every Sunday during the season. The proof is in the pudding
The thing you brought up that’s a good point is why wait three year to recruit OT? Instead of stacking the position so you wouldn’t have to go through whiffing. I cannot understand that unless (not putting excuses for him) the portal changed the game. Idk what he did at Oregon in terms of recruiting elite positions back to back to back years. But if he approaches recruiting like this we will never win a natty.
I believe Reilly had gone through this with this with his Oregon classes, but if he didnt, he would def know though.
Samson seems like he will just be a basic body that was rated too high coming out of HS. On3 was on point with it. And you should not take to many projects at all tbh. I don’t think we are in position to take too many projects yet especially on the LOS
Now who is cherry-picking stats? I actually agreed with most of what you said previously about offensive line and Georgia.
You know I’m talking about the big name schools in the sec. But Missouri did finish with the 14th class last cycle. Uk was 26th. That’s very good for those programs and best believe being in the sec helped. 11 of the top 20 classes last year was sec. 6 was big ten. Then you had Miami, nd, and fsu. All these kids know is what’s being pushed to them for years and that’s the sec is the best
Ask yourself this- If we were in the SEC right now, would we land him? Answer is still probably no. Being is the ACC is not the reason we'll likely lose this kid lol
Chances probably would be higher. And I’m not even saying just for this kid. We would be in play for a lot more elite level talent. If we were in the sec after winning 10 games last year we would have cleaned up in recruiting and had a top 5 class
What does that have to do with searles being áss as a o-line coach?
One of the complaints against him at Oregon was that while he talked a good game, he and his staff were rather disorganized when it came to roster management. This very thing we are seeing right now. This info has been shared on here by a respected poster a while ago, but many conveniently just ignored it because it didnt fit with their narrative. Here is one for you to go look up. Go check out how many player he had drafted while he was at Oregon, players he signed and/or coached and then also take a look at how many were OL. I promise you, it will be like be very sobering.
Name the head coach that would’ve had us in the natty last year?
